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Despite intermittent efforts over the past three decades, the UAW union has been unable to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in states such as Alabama and Tennessee.
While Nikki Haley trails Donald Trump in polling ahead of the South Carolina primary, the estimates don’t capture the Democrats and independents who are also able to vote in the Republican primary.
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.
The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.
Democrats may have pushed Iowa out of the early-state presidential nominating lineup, but Republicans are sticking with Iowa first.
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
A long-lost letter from prison by a civil rights activist provides a window on the pivotal role protesters in South Carolina played in fighting segregation.
Were GOP incumbents able to rely on their rural supporters to fend off Democrats’ growing strength in the suburbs?
The battle to expand private education in South Carolina amid the pandemic mirrors previous struggles over civil rights and highlights the ways systemic racism has undermined public education.
Despite his defense of slavery, the former vice president and US senator from South Carolina has been honored with statues and streets, schools and counties. That’s finally changing.
Since the state’s first coronavirus case surfaced, trained case investigators have traced the contacts of every person who tested positive. Here’s what else South Carolina got right.
South Carolina’s black community has a long history of fighting for democratic rights.
Why did Earth’s climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? Evidence is mounting that a comet or asteroid collision is to blame, with new support coming from the bottom of a South Carolina lake.
After a hurricane strikes or an earthquake makes shockwaves, try to support nonprofits that are clear about what they do and how they will spend your money.
Social media make it easier to push information out quickly during disasters, but also create challenges for public information officers, who have to judge which reports are credible enough to share.
The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas last week could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea
For the start of Atlantic hurricane season on June 1, scholars explain weather forecasting, evacuation orders, inland flooding risks and how social ties influence decisions to stay or flee.
Hurricanes frequently move inland in the southeast US, causing widespread river flooding, but emergency plans focus on protecting people in coastal communities.
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Associate Professor of History; Director Center for Civil Rights History and Research, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Professor of History, Emory University
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Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor Of Modern American History, University of Sussex
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Thurmond Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Maurice V Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
